INTRODUCTION Recent evidence suggests that early, aggressive resuscitation in patients with septic shock reduces mortality. The objective of this survey was to characterize reported resuscitation practices of Canadian physicians caring for adult critically ill patients with early septic shock. METHODS A scenario-based self-administered national survey was sent out to Canadian critical care ph...

We determined the dose-dependent effects of OC99, a novel, stabilized hemoglobin-based oxygen-carrier, on hemodynamics, systemic and pulmonary artery pressures, surrogates of tissue oxygen debt (arterial lactate 7.2 ± 0.1 mM/L and arterial base excess -17.9 ± 0.5 mM/L), and tissue oxygen tension (tPO2) in a dog model of controlled severe oxygen-debt from hemorrhagic shock. The dose/rate for OC9...

Autor artykułu analizuje treść ankiety powstałej w 1773 r., którą 13 spiskim miastom rozesłał ich administrator Paweł Tiszta. Celem ankiety, zawierającej 37 punktów, było ustalenie politycznego i gospodarczego stanu poszczególnych miast po wygaśnięciu zastawu spiskiego powrocie do Królestwa Węgier. Przedmiotem analizy stały się te części które informują o narodowościowym pochodzeniu katolickich...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence, aeriology, and outcome of injuries due to bell ringing. DESIGN Retrospective review of the last six years' issues of Ringing World, advertisement in Ringing World, and a postal questionnaire sent to 20 active ringing towers. SUBJECTS Regular bell ringers. RESULTS Seventy nine injuries were identified both from review and by advertisement in Ringing Wo...

OBJECTIVE WHO recommends Ringers lactate (RL) and Normal Saline (NS) for rapid intravenous rehydration in childhood diarrhea and severe dehydration. We compared these two fluids for improvement in pH over baseline during rapid intravenous rehydration in children with acute diarrhea. DESIGN Double-blind randomized controlled trial SETTING Pediatric emergency facilities at a tertiary-care ref...

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By the end of eighteenth-century St Martin’s Youths Birmingham was one leading bell ringing societies outside London, as it remains to this day. The handwritten peal books in Archive Guild, its modern successor, provide a record peals rung by society from 1755, but little known ringers themselves beyond few anecdotes contained oral history for later period. Genealogical records and techniques a...

Aim: To asses the incidence of PDPH in different gauges of spinal needle in relation to age. Methods: This Comparative Study was carried out at AFIU (RWP), Railway General Hospital Rawalpindi and Children Complex Multan from August 2007 to August 2008. A total of 1500 patients were studied in 9 different groups (A1, B1, C1, A2, B2, C2, A3, B3, C3) with group A,B and C for 23G, 25G and 27G respe...